French security forces on Friday stormed two sites where jihadis had been holding hostages, killing the two Charlie Hebdo massacre suspects and a third man who was holding captives in a kosher supermarket, French media reported.
Multiple news reports also said that brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi were killed after they ran from a printing plant near Charles de Gaulle Airport and opened fire on security forces with Kalashnikov rifles — the same type of weapons they used to kill 12 people in the newspaper attack Wednesday.
The suspect in the grocery siege, Amedy Coulibaly, was also killed. He is believed to be the gunman who fatally shot a female police officer in a Paris suburb Thursday, and was part of the same terror cell the Kouachi brothers belonged to.
The two brothers linked to al Qaeda took a hostage early Friday and were cornered by police inside a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris. They are believed to be responsible for the attack that decimated Charlie Hebdo’s staff and left two police officers dead.
In addition, the police official said a gunman holding at least five hostages Friday inside a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris is believed responsible for the roadside killing of a Paris policewoman Thursday. Authorities released a photo of him and a female accomplice but were unclear about her whereabouts.